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Get the 411 on 802.11g, especially AirPort Extreme: My book co-author Adam Engst and I have co-written a 3,000-word article on the state of 802.11g equipment including an enormous amount of detail about AirPort Extreme: both the Base Station and the AirPort Extreme Card. This article will be available next week as a downloadable PDF with illustrations and photos, too. (And remember: we launched an Apple AirPort-specific blog earlier this week, too, for all your AirPort needs and questions.)
100th anniversary of Marconi's first US to Great Britain transmission: Celebrations tomorrow of the first trans-Atlantic message using Marconi's wireless system. A short message, but it got there.
Use electrical power to spread your network's reach: Richard Giles mentions the increasingly cool electrical power networking system that allows you to span areas of a home with Ethernet. It's good to note that Siemens now offers a Wi-Fi-to-power converter, too, so you can add a HomePlug/PowerLine Wi-Fi access point and use an Ethernet-to-power converter in another part of the house where your Internet access lives. It's cheap, too: about $90 for the Wi-Fi adapter, according to a Walt Mossberg column a few weeks ago.
Hotspotzz offers Sundance festival service, overstates own importance: They had me at Sundance. I thought, what a great press release: they're offering Wi-Fi service for one of the premier film events, and it's both a great opportunity for them to show off what they're doing and get some nice promotion. But then they threw in this phrase: These hot spots comprise a significant percentage of the U.S. public wireless Wi-Fi hot spots in the United States. Forget the tautology. Their 110 hot spots represent less than 1/2 of one percentage point, and probably less than 1/4 or 1/8 at this point. Let's be realistic, folks: 110 hot spots scattered across a bunch of cities is great, but it's only the seed of something that must be much, much larger.